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Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources - including solar, gas, and batteries - at a massive scale.\nAnd yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance.\nWe’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment.\nOur products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers.\nScalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world.\nAmperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company.\nWith hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale.\nJoin us in building the power foundation of the future!\nAbout Amperesand\nAmperesand is building next-generation power infrastructure systems for Data Centers, EV charging platforms, and future energy applications. Our systems combine advanced power electronics, embedded controls, and scalable energy architectures to rethink how power is converted, controlled, and deployed.\nAbout the Role\nAt Amperesand, you will lead the design and development of a scalable, robust distributed test framework in Golang that automates test systems across our labs and manufacturing lines, accelerating prototype validation and ramping high-volume production. You'll own the technical direction of our test software, set engineering standards, and mentor the team. Your hardware background lets you design efficient, accurate test systems for our Solid State Transformer and integrate them with manufacturing systems.\nWhat You'll Do\nArchitect a highly scalable, modular test framework in Golang to test high-voltage power electronics, thermal systems, and more, spanning lab validation, regression testing, and production.\nDrive end-to-end test software development from design through deployment and post-deployment improvements, building in ease of validation and maintenance.\nIntegrate test systems with MES and other databases to enable traceability and closed-loop feedback between test results and production.\nInnovate test system design by collaborating with electrical, mechanical, firmware, and manufacturing teams, and provide feedback to improve product quality.\nLead and mentor the software team: establish development standards, foster a strong code review culture, and drive adoption across the team.\nParticipate hands-on in test hardware bring-up, system debugging, and optimization to meet accuracy, cycle time, and throughput targets.\nTravel to facilities worldwide to collaborate with teams and deploy our solutions.\nWhat You'll Bring\nBS or MS in Computer or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.\n6+ years designing and building scalable software for distributed systems, with demonstrated technical leadership on complex projects.\nDeep expertise in system-level languages (Golang, Rust, C, C++, etc.) with excellent software fundamentals: architectural design, algorithms, data structures, modularity, and maintainability.\nStrong command of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and distributed systems to meet strict cycle-time requirements and maximize throughput.\nExperience ingesting high-volume data for real-time decision-making, and with both relational and non-relational databases.\nStrong hardware background: experience with electrical hardware, microcontrollers, and communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I2C, etc.), sufficient to design efficient, accurate test systems.\nExperience working with Linux.\nProven ability to mentor engineers, build team depth, and drive adoption of engineering standards.\nEngaged, proactive, and positive in owning challenging work and taking accountability for team success.\nWorking Model\nEmployment Type:\nFull-time\nLocation:\nSan Francisco/Sunnyvale / Reno \nWork Model:\n\nOnsite\nOnsite Collaboration Rationale:\nGiven the highly collaborative and cross-functional nature of hardware, embedded systems, and product development, in-person partnership across engineering and product teams is critical to enabling rapid execution, technical alignment, and successful development outcomes.\nWhy Join Amperesand\nWork on next-generation power infrastructure systemsHigh ownership and visibility\nCross-functional collaboration\nOpportunity to shape future products and infrastructure\n• Fast-moving startup environment\n\nCandidate Confidentiality & Information Protection \nAs part of our commitment to protecting confidential and proprietary information, candidates should not discloseor provide Amperesandwith any confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to a current or former employer or any other third party during the application or interview process. \nPlease do not submitor present employer-owned source code, schematics, designs, technical documentation, internal presentations, customer information, prototypes, or other confidential materials. Candidates should discuss their experience and accomplishments at an appropriate leveland use only information and materials they are authorized toshare. \nPay Disclosure & Benefits\nCompensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law. \nThe benefits outlined below apply exclusively to employees located in the United States.\nCompetitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options \nMedical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire \nCompany paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance \n401k retirement savings plan through Empower \nEmployees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays \nCommuter Benefits \n100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks) \nSingapore-based employees receive benefits in accordance with local government provisions.\nEqual Employment Opportunity \nAmperesand is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. \nAmperesand is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. 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